and that's spreading. This prosperity preaching is going on in Africa. And my question is, where does that leave suffering?

这种劲头越来越大，这种追求繁荣的论调,甚至在非洲都出现了，我想问的是，在这样的大背景下，受苦还能存在么？

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Genesis is concerned to account for the origin of things and wrestles with the existence of evil, the existence of idolatry and suffering in a world that's created by a good god.

创世纪》被认为解释了万物的来源,试图解决罪恶的存在，盲目崇拜的存在以及这个受苦的世界,这是一个善良的神创造的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I pay too much attention to suffering and that suffering is not what God wants, that we need to concentrate on God's blessings, which are that we be healthy and wealthy.

我过于注重受苦这件事了,受苦并非上帝希望的，我们需要专注于上帝的赐福才对，我们要健康，要富裕。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cassady holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggar holy the hideous human angels!

神圣的彼得神圣的艾伦神圣的所罗门吕西安凯鲁雅克,神圣的汉克神圣的宝来神圣的凯萨迪神圣未知的同性恋,受苦的乞丐神圣丑恶的人类天使！

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Sometimes the notion is that it is just terrible for everybody with actual pain and suffering, and others have a notion of a wonderful kind of a heaven in which marvelous things happen to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes physical depending on the religion.

有时候一些观念是很可怕的,每个人死后,都要受苦受难,而另一些观念就很美好,有一个美妙天堂,在那里你会有非凡的体验,或是精神上的,或是肉体上的,不同的宗教里说法不同

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

But if we wanna find that tradition of suffering in Christianity and our own country, I think the strongest place to find it is among the salves and their culture.

但是，当试图找到受苦的源头时,不论是基督教，还是在美国，我认为，最能代表它的,就是奴隶和奴隶文化。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选